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SMSB alumnus Moe Ways evolves from football rookie to Michigan receiver

Moe Ways was not always a talented football player.

The sport was not the former Detroit Country Day star's first choice, either — his heart belonged to basketball, where his 6-foot-4 frame thrived on the hardwood.

But students at the private prep school are required to participate in two sports, which sent Ways searching for a compliment to basketball.

"I was already playing basketball, so I picked up football just to do it," he recalled while speaking to campers at Friday's Sound Mind Sound Body football camp.

At first, football did not come without its struggles for Ways, a wide receiver.